why it is celebrated every March 22

2024-03-22 03:11:00

2023 – WATER DAY. Since 1993, World Water Day has been celebrated, established by the United Nations to promote the conservation and good use of water resources with the recommendations of the Conference on Environment and Development.

The motto of World Water Day 2024, as explained by the UN, is “Water for Peace.” “When we cooperate on water, we create a positive cascade effect, promoting harmony, generating prosperity and fostering resilience in the face of common challenges,” they elaborated on the date.

For this reason, the Organization urged “to act on the basis that water is not just a resource that is used and competed for: it is a human right, intrinsic to all aspects of life.”

“It is necessary that we all unite around water and use it in favor of peace, laying the foundations for a more stable and prosperous future,” they concluded.

More anniversaries

1895 – SILENT FILM. The documentary La sortie de L’usine Lumière à Lyon (The departure of the Lumière factory in Lyon), considered the first silent film, is screened in France. It was directed by Louis Lumiere, inventor of cinema along with his brother Auguste.

1873 – JULIETA LANTERI IS BORN. The Italian-Argentine doctor Julieta Lanteri, founder of the National Feminist Party, was born in the commune of Briga Marittima (Cúneo, Italy, currently Provence, France). In 1911 she became the first woman to vote in South America thanks to a court ruling that recognized her right to vote.

Julieta Lanteri, the first woman to vote in Argentina (General Archive of the Nation)

1904 – DAILY I. MIRROR. The American newspaper Daily Illustrated Mirror marks a milestone in the history of the graphic press by publishing a color photograph for the first time.

1931 – WILLIAM SHATNER. Canadian actor William Shatner was born in the city of Montreal, who gained worldwide fame for playing Captain James Kirk of the spaceship Enterprise in the Star Trek series and films. At 90 years old and as one of the crew members of the Blue Origin ship, in 2021 he became the oldest person to travel to space.

William Shatner in his Blue Origin suit, Jeff Bezos' company that took him to space. (Instagram). — William Shatner in his Blue Origin suit, Jeff Bezos’ company that took him to space. (Instagram).

1936 – HANS G. LINK. German mountaineer Hans George Link becomes the first to reach the summit of Aconcagua, 6,962 meters above sea level, the highest peak in America. Link gained fame with the nickname “The Condor of America” by climbing to the top of the “Roof of America” four times, where he died in an accident in 1944.

The summit of Aconcagua in the summer season. Claudio Gutiérrez / Los Andes

1942 – NACE LEO AND. The singer, composer and actor Leo Dan, stage name of Leopoldo Dante Tevez, winner of a Grammy Award for best composer, was born in the city of Santiago del Estero. He recorded more than 70 albums in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Mexico and Peru.

1963 – THE BEATLES. The British pop rock band The Beatles releases his first album in London: Please, please me. It contains fourteen songs, including the popular Love me do and Twist and shout.

1996 – JOSÉ L. CHILAVERT. Paraguayan José Luis Chilavert, Vélez Sarsfield’s goalkeeper, scores a goal against Germán Burgos from River Plate by taking a free kick from midfield. The goal went down in history for having been scored at a distance of about 60 meters from River’s goal, at the Monumental stadium.

2002 – EUTHANASIA. British judge Elizabeth Butler-Sloss authorizes euthanasia for “Miss B,” a paralyzed social worker who demanded that her ventilator be disconnected so she could exercise her right to “die with dignity.”

2018 – RENÉ HOUSEMAN. At the age of 64, former soccer player René Orlando Houseman dies in Buenos Aires, a forward who shone in Huracán and River Plate and was world champion with the Argentine team in 1978. He scored 155 goals in the 430 games he played throughout his career. career.

René Houseman, Mexico '86. — René Houseman, Mexico ’86.

Other anniversaries

1369.- Enrique de Trastamara, with the help of the French warrior Beltrán Duguesclin, kills his brother Pedro I, king of Castile.
1506.- Ferdinand the Catholic, widower of Isabel I of Castile, marries Germana de Foix, niece of the French king Louis XII.
1789.- Proclamation of the Helvetic Republic.
1793.- The German Confederation declares war on France.
1820.- The Argentine province of Tucumán is proclaimed an independent State.
1848.- Proclamation of the Republic of San Marcos, in Venice, which is freed from Austria.
1855.- Ramón Pintó is executed in Cuba, when the independence conspiracy in which he was involved was discovered.
1873.- The National Assembly of the Spanish Republic approves the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico.
1895.- The Lumiére brothers screen in public the first film ever made in the world: “The departure of workers from the Lumiére factory.”
1904.- The American newspaper “Daily Illustrated Mirror” publishes a color photograph for the first time in history.
1910.- Peru and Chile break their diplomatic relations due to disputes over the provinces of Tacna and Arica.
1934.- Dr. Gabriel Terra is re-elected president of the Republic of Uruguay.
1936.- The Argentine mountaineer Juan Jorge Link carries out the first solo reconnaissance of Aconcagua, in the Andes, the highest peak on the American continent.
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1963.- The British band The Beatles releases their first album “Please Please Me”.
1968.- The student revolt that would lead to the “French May” begins.
1983.- Australian scientists successfully implant a frozen embryo in a woman.
1993.- Intel launches the first Pentium series processor, which achieves greater processing speed although it increases the technical requirements of the computer that supports it.
1994.- New papal document that prohibits priests from political and union militancy.
1996.- Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan decide to sign a preferential integration agreement within the CIS.
1997.- The Parliament of Poland approves by a large majority the country’s first democratic Constitution.
1998.- The Serbian province of Kosovo holds unauthorized elections that gave victory to the independence party Kosovo Democratic League (LDK) of Ibrahim Rugova.
2002.- The Conference on Financing for Development held in Monterrey ends with the approval of the “Monterrey Consensus”, a document that demands transparency from poor countries in exchange for financing.
2004.- Sheikh Ahmed Yasin, founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, is assassinated in Gaza, when he was hit by an air-to-ground missile launched by the Israeli army.
2006.- The Argentine government orders the total opening of secret military archives during the years of military dictatorship (1976-1983).
2010.- Google diverts its search engine in China to its portal in Hong Kong to avoid censorship by the Beijing Government.
2011- An Israeli court sentences former president Moshe Katsav to seven years for rape and sexual assault.
2016.- 32 people die and the 3 suicide bombers in two jihadist-inspired attacks at the airport and the metro line in Brussels (Belgium).
2016.- US President Barack Obama praises the courage of Cuban dissidents, with whose representatives and other activists he met on the last day of his historic visit to Cuba.
2021.- The first tweet in history, sent in 2006, is sold as an NFT for 2.4 million euros.

BIRTH

1599.- Anton Van Dick, flamenco master.
1869.- Emilio Aguinaldo, one of the prominent leaders of the Philippine insurrection.
1912.- Karl Malden, American actor.
1921. – Nino Manfredi, Italian actor and director.
1923.- Marcel Marceau, French actor and mime.
1930.- Pat Robertson, American evangelical televangelist.
1937.- Angelo Badalamenti, American musician and composer.
1941.- Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor.
1943.- George Benson, American jazz singer and musician.
1948.- Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer.
1949.- John Benjamin Toshack, former British footballer and football coach.
1956.- María Teresa, heir grand duchess of Luxembourg.
1967.- Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist.
1975.- Jirí Novák, Czech tennis player.
1999.- Mick Schumacher, German racing driver, son of Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher.